Category: What’s There to Eat?

Faddy Food in the U.S.A.: Riddhi Shah, “Why Is America So Fixed on Food Fads?”

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Summer has arrived, and the produce aisles and farmers’ markets are brimming with fresh items. Is there anything new and different where you shop or dine? Have you tried a taste? New York-based author Riddhi Shah writes about food-related issues for Salon, The Atlantic, the Huffington Post, and other periodicals. In this 2010 Slate article, …

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Hungering for Equality: Lisa Miller on Food and Class in the U.S.

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Lisa Miller, award-winning journalist, is a religion editor for Newsweek, where she has worked since 2000. Her 2010 book, Heaven: Our Enduring Fascination with the Afterlife, is a history and personal memoir on the idea of life after death. In this article, she tackles a more down-to-earth situation: access to adequate nutrition in a nation …

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